Tools for Success: AudioSeminars, Books, and Package Deals

Looking for tips, tricks, and techniques to help you reach your writing goals? Kelly James-Enger is a popular speaker at writers’ conferences and has appeared at more than 60 events throughout the country. Now you can listen to her practical, doable, tried-and-tested advice whenever you like. Purchase a CD and you’ll receive an hour’s worth of ideas and strategies to help you get published and make more money as a freelancer.

AudioSeminars

BREAKING IN: THE BASICS OF WRITING FOR MAGAZINES

Would you like to write for magazines? While basic writing skills are essential, you must also know how to select and analyze potential markets, develop winning article ideas, and craft attention-getting query letters. This popular program will introduce you to some common magazine terminology and cover “basics” like how to find markets, come up with story ideas, and offer ways to nail your first magazine assignments. Includes outline with common magazine writing terms defined and a sample query letter.

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SIX-FIGURE FREELANCING: TECHNIQUES TO HELP YOU GET THERE

Want to hit the six-figure mark as a freelancer—or simply make more for the writing you’re already doing? Learn the techniques successful freelancers use to command higher rates, crack top markets, negotiate for more money, develop ongoing relationships with publications, and work more efficiently and more effectively in this jam-packed workshop. You’ll come away with new insights about how to maximize your writing time and boost your bottom line in the process. Includes outline to help you identify personal goals and strategies that will work for you.

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Package Deals

Six-Figure Freelancing: The Writer’s Guide to Making More Money(Random House, 2005)

My first year of fulltime freelancing, I only made $17,000. But by my sixth, I’d cracked a long-term goal—cracking the six-figure mark.

Making more doesn’t mean that I work more. (In fact, I put in fewer hours than when I started freelancing.) It does mean I work a lot more efficiently than I used to. That experience, along with discussions with other six-figure freelancers, led to Six-Figure Freelancing: The Writer’s Guide to Making More Money. This book shows both new and experienced writers how to:

• Take a business-like approach to your freelance career;
• Negotiate more writer-friendly contracts with editors;
• Develop your own system of writing templates and forms; 
• Identify ways to produce more work in less time;
• Create and maintain relationships with clients and colleagues; and
• Set short-term and long-term goals for your writing career. 

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Ready, Aim, Specialize! Create your Own Writing Specialty and Make More Money (The Writer Books, 2003)

Forget about generalizing. If you want to make more money in less time, consider developing a writing specialty. Ready, Aim, Specialize! How to Create your Writing Specialty and Make More Money shows freelancers how to set themselves apart and make more money by creating writing niches for themselves. It also includes advice from 56 successful freelancers about breaking into the ten hottest writing specialties and hundreds of helpful resources for writers.

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